Kauffman Campus Initiative Activities

Since being named a Kauffman Campus in December 2005, UW–Madison has initiated or partnered on the following entrepreneurship activities.

Entrepreneurship in Teaching and Learning

• Certificates in Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community
• Entrepreneurship Inventory
• Arts Enterprise Project
• Arts Venture Challenge
• ASM/SIFE Student Business Incubator
• Burrill Business Plan Competition expansion
• Qualcomm Wireless Innovation Competition promotion
• Climate Leadership Challenge promotion
• Student Venture Seed Grants
• Student Events
  • Entrepreneurship Week 07 Panel
  • Money, Marketing and Mentors Panel
  • Elections & Social Media: Entrepreneurial Paths to Participation
  • Entrepreneurial Deli
  • 100 Hour Challenges
  • Global Entrepreneurship Week (2009, 2010, 2011)
• New Courses
  • BME (COE) 601 Intro to Biomed Entrepreneurship
  • BME 703/704 Biomedical Entrepreneurship Practicum
  • LAW 953 Law and Entrepreneurship
  • INTER-HE 501 Entrepreneurship and Society
  • MHR (BUS/ERLC) 365 Entrepreneurship in Business, Arts & Nonprofits
  • MHR (BUS) 422 Small Business Management expansion
  • Nuts and Bolts: How to Survive in the Real World and Remain an Artist
  • Sustainability Meets Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship in Research Commercialization

• Census of 385 startup companies
• Technology Business Development Institute course expansions
• Law &Entrepreneurship Clinic
• MERLIN Venture Mentoring Service
• Wisconsin Entrepreneur's Bootcamp
• WARF Startup Licensing Manager
• Technology Business Development Institute collaboration
• Medical Innovations Office collaboration
• Entrepreneurs' Resource Clinic
• Events
  • WARF Gilson Series events
  • Management, Talent and Capital seminar
  • Creating and Funding University Startups webinar series
  • Resources for Startups webinar
  • Licensing and Commercialization Bootcamp
  • National SBIR/STTR Conference
  • Bimonthly Early Stage CEO Breakfast Roundtable
  • First Look Investor Forums
  • Cleantech Connections Kickoff
  • University Research Entrepreneurship Symposium

Statewide Implementation

• Accelerate Wisconsin Program — Access to Capital
• People Program — Urban Entrepreneurship Program
• Kauffman Community Internship Program — Morgridge Center
• Greater Madison Area Events — Madison Magnet partnership
  • Sam Davidson Social Entrepreneurship seminar
  • Entrepreneurial Toolkit series
• Milwaukee BizStarts — collaboration
• Wisconsin Technology Council Events — Statewide Audiences
  • Young Entrepreneurs Panel — Ashland WI
  • First Look Investor Forum at Early Stage Symposium
  • First Look Investor Forum at Entrepreneurs Conference
  • Young Entrepreneurs Panel at Entrepreneurs Conference
Global Entrepreneurship Week — Wisconsin coordination Wisconsin Angel Network — Chicago collaboration Midwest Research University Network — Chicago collaboration University of Wisconsin–Platteville — grant support University of Wisconsin–Whitewater — Innovation Service Center Academic Entrepreneurship track at 2010 Ideas to Profit Conference Global Entrepreneurship Week — Wisconsin coordination AeroInnovate Conference
• Israel Institute of Technology — Uzi de Haan visit
• Spreenkler Talent Labs collaboration
• In Business with Jody & Joan — WTDY collaboration
• UW SBDC collaboration offering entrepreneurship classes in Sauk and Columbia counties
• UW SBDC collaboration with Comienzos
• UW–Madison Entrepreneurship in Society classes on Wisconsin Public Television